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Speaker 1: See let's go to the message, y'all. I feel so

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Speaker 1: excited to preach this word, but I feel settled about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel spastic like that. I feel just settled

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Speaker 1: about so cool, so beautiful what the Lord selected for

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Speaker 1: us to study today. And I'm excited about it. Since

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Speaker 1: they're baptized in half of the county, I got to

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Speaker 1: go a little quicker today, So y'all listen good, would you?

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Speaker 1: If y'all will listen better, I can finish sooner. When

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Speaker 1: I go too long, it's at least half your fall.

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Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit selected a text today. It's really like

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Speaker 1: a song, and I'm drawn to it, not only because

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Speaker 1: I love music, but because there's a truth in it

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Speaker 1: that I want to point out to you. It's found

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Speaker 1: in First Chronicles. Don't have a panic attack trying to

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Speaker 1: find it in your Bible. That's not one of the

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Speaker 1: books you normally look. If I say Genesis, you're good, Revelation,

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Speaker 1: I think that's towards the bat But First Chronicles in

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Speaker 1: the Hebrew Bible, it was kind of considered the whole

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Speaker 1: Old Testament and capitulate some of the things that you'll

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Speaker 1: read in First and Second Samuel. But it goes further.

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Speaker 1: It starts with Adam, and then by the time it ends,

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Speaker 1: we're in the exile. In the middle of all that,

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Speaker 1: we read a lot about David. We read a lot

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Speaker 1: about King David. And there's one thing I want to read.

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Speaker 1: I need to read verses seven through at least twenty,

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Speaker 1: maybe twenty four, just to give you the flow of it.

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Speaker 1: So let's read this together in first Chronicle sixteen. There

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Speaker 1: is a message in this for me. Say it out loud.

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Speaker 1: There is a message in this for me, maybe not

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Speaker 1: for the person next to you. Let's say for me,

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Speaker 1: I want you to personalize this today. I want you

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Speaker 1: to personalize this word today. The scripture says that day

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Speaker 1: David first appointed Asaf and his associates to give praise

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Speaker 1: to the Lord in this manner. Give praise to the Lord,

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Speaker 1: proclaim his name, make known among the nations what he

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Speaker 1: has done. Sing to him, Sing praise to him. Tell

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Speaker 1: of all his wonderful acts, Glory in his holy name.

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Speaker 1: Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.

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Speaker 1: Look to the Lord and his strength, seek his face.

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Speaker 1: Always remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, the

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Speaker 1: judgments he pronounced. You his servants, the descendants of Israel,

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Speaker 1: his chosen ones, the children of Jacob. He is the Lord,

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Speaker 1: our God. His judgments are in all the earth. He

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Speaker 1: remembers his covenant forever, the promise he may, I love

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Speaker 1: that I might come back and nibble on that a

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Speaker 1: little later. Y'all hold on to that, the promise he

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Speaker 1: made for a thousand generations, the covenant he made with Abraham,

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Speaker 1: the oath he swore to Isaac. He confirmed it to

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Speaker 1: Jacob as a decree to Israel, as an everlasting covenant.

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Speaker 1: Now that was the neighborhood. Let's pull up to the door.

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Speaker 1: Now these verses are the door to you. I will

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Speaker 1: give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.

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Speaker 1: Shout over what God gave you. Nah, y'all aren't grateful.

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Speaker 1: Shout over what God gave me to you. I will

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Speaker 1: give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.

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Speaker 1: When they were but few in number, few indeed, and

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Speaker 1: For their sake, he rebuked, kings, do not touch my

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Speaker 1: anointed ones. Do my prophets no harm. Sing to the

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Speaker 1: Lord all the earth, proclaim his salvation day after day,

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Speaker 1: to clear his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds

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Speaker 1: among all peoples. Go back to verse nineteen. When they

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Speaker 1: I don't know what we'll call this message when we

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Speaker 1: put it online, But for now let's call it faithful

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Speaker 1: with a few. Faithful with a few, you may be

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Speaker 1: seated faithful with a few. We stepped into a celebration

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Speaker 1: the whole story, all of this commotion, all of this glorifying,

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Speaker 1: Arc of the Covenant. The Arc of the Covenant, not

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Speaker 1: Noah's arc. That's a boat, not a story arc, like

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Speaker 1: the Arc of the Covenant was a piece of furniture

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Speaker 1: made of acacial would only four feet long, two and

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Speaker 1: I wish I could do it in meters for our

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Speaker 1: international audience. But see, we're here in the United States

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Speaker 1: and all this celebration over what appeared to be just

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Speaker 1: the piece of furniture. Of course, we understand that it's

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Speaker 1: a symbolic representation of the presence of God. Because in

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Speaker 1: that acacia wood which was overlaid with gold, with a

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Speaker 1: they went, was the manna that God gave us people,

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Speaker 1: the law that he gave us people, and Aaron's rod,

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Speaker 1: which represented the priesthood. In that arc of the Covenant,

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Speaker 1: was represented God's provision, God's protection, and God's precepts. Three

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Speaker 1: things in that arc, yet it symbolized one thing, which

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Speaker 1: is this God was with us. They carried it wherever

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Speaker 1: they went. In their mind it was the actual housing

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Speaker 1: place of the presence of God. But really we understand

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Speaker 1: that God is everywhere. We know that because of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel God with us. And when Emmanuel God with us,

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Speaker 1: left the earth, he gave us the counselor the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 1: not just to be with us, but to be in us.

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Speaker 1: We don't live in the Old Covenant, but we can

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Speaker 1: learn from it. We don't live in it, but we

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Speaker 1: can learn from it. The presence of God is inside

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Speaker 1: of you. It's inside of me. So when the Bible

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Speaker 1: all these things for him, how much more will he

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Speaker 1: do for you? If the spirit of His son lives

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Speaker 1: inside of you. This is our confidence in Christ, not

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Speaker 1: in our selves. It's really not a celebration about furniture.

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Speaker 1: It's a celebration about faithfulness faithfulness, not their faithfulness, because

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Speaker 1: that would have been a sorry celebration indeed, But God's faithfulness.

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Speaker 1: Big difference what you praise God for. Do you praise

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Speaker 1: him for the furniture or for his faithfulness? Because if

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Speaker 1: can see, it can be taken away. If you praise

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Speaker 1: him for the furniture, if he moves it to the

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Speaker 1: other side of the room, you might get mad. When

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Speaker 1: things change in your life, your praise goes down. But

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Speaker 1: you have to learn what David did here, and I

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Speaker 1: think is such a good lesson for us. He made

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Speaker 1: them praise God. He made them praise God. Reminded me.

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Speaker 1: When I was in college, I was a worship leader

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Speaker 1: before I was a pastor. I preached and led worship

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Speaker 1: all at the beginning of the church. I did all

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Speaker 1: of it, and I'm really glad that we have so

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Speaker 1: many gifted people who can do it now. But in

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Speaker 1: a panchroc, I could still get it done if I

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Speaker 1: had to, Okay, I promise you. Okay. I don't know

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Speaker 1: all the songs anymore, but I remember a few of them,

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Speaker 1: and I could. I could get this done if everybody

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Speaker 1: it was a bad digestive situation. It kind of gross, right,

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Speaker 1: But I'm not saying it would be as good, but

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Speaker 1: know that you wanted to marry Stephen? Sometimes she'll mention

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Speaker 1: She talked about the first time she saw me. Still

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Speaker 1: I was crazy. I was wearing a a big Superman

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Speaker 1: I was Superman or something like that, playing in a

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Speaker 1: the worship leader for a ministry North Greenville, university, not

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Speaker 1: a big school, not a big school. But I believe

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Speaker 1: God put me there if for no other reason than

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Speaker 1: to win her. And how I won her through my leadership.

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Speaker 1: Through my leadership. Through my leadership, I found out spiritual

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Speaker 1: leadership is sexy to a spiritual woman. So, not that

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Speaker 1: I was thinking it, but y'all, I made a praise

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Speaker 1: didn't audition her for her vocal ability. That really wasn't

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Speaker 1: But we had a good time because when I first

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Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all were around in the nineties

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Speaker 1: and churches, but everybody was beaten on a gym bay,

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Speaker 1: big drum like this, and everybody was beating on a

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Speaker 1: God for big things. Now went to him who was

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Speaker 1: There were one hundred kids in that choir by the

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Speaker 1: time it was over, and the school wasn't that big.

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Speaker 1: But God did it. But God did it. I preached

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago about but God. And I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: when I told her that, I didn't know how, I

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Speaker 1: didn't know who, I didn't know, I had no idea

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Speaker 1: how I would accomplish it. But I spoke it by

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Speaker 1: And so I heard her telling the kids the other day.

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Speaker 1: I never doubted something that your dad told me he

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Speaker 1: was going to do after that, because when he said it,

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Speaker 1: I thought he was crazy. And then guess what, it

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Speaker 1: came to pass. And we've seen God do that just

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Speaker 1: over and over again now in our ministry, in this church.

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Speaker 1: Some of you have been here for a lot of it,

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Speaker 1: some of you have been here for all of it.

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Speaker 1: You have seen God do that over and over and

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Speaker 1: over again. So when the baptisms were happened, why were

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Speaker 1: through it? Why? Why on that screen was somebody crying

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Speaker 1: about somebody getting in water? How many of y'all got

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Speaker 1: So in any bad mood, you can pivot to praise,

426
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Speaker 1: pivot to praise. David knew how to do this. That's

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Speaker 1: what David knew how to do. That's why the Bible

428
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: called him a man after God's own heart, not because

429
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Speaker 1: he was perfect. You think that means he was perfect?

430
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Speaker 1: Then what's Bethsheba all about? Why did he sleep with

431
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Speaker 1: a woman while he was supposed to be at warf

432
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Speaker 1: he was a man after God's own heart. It is

433
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Speaker 1: not about his perfection, It was about his praise. He

434
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: gave God glory in all of those things. Because if

435
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Speaker 1: you don't learn how to pivot to praise in situations,

436
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: two things will happen. When times are good, you're running

437
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Speaker 1: into pride if you don't pivot to praise. And then

438
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 1: when time are bad, if you don't pivot to praise,

439
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:08,479
Speaker 1: you'll be in a prison of your circumstance, pride or

440
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: prison if you don't learn to pivot. David made them

441
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: praise God. He said, Asaf, get me twelve men station

442
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: and appoint them. And this is what I want them

443
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Speaker 1: to say. I want them to start talking about the

444
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: glory of God and the great things that He's done.

445
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: And I want us to get our attention off of

446
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: how we stumbled, and I want us to get our

447
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: attention even of how we succeeded. And I want us

448
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: to start singing about and thinking about all the things

449
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: that God did, all the ways that God made, even

450
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Speaker 1: the strange ways that God made. And the praise only

451
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: seems strange if you don't understand the process that they

452
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: went through to get it there. The praise only seems

453
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: strange if you don't understand the process that you went

454
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: through to get there. It only seems strange because you

455
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: didn't see the struggle that led to the praise. It

456
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: only seems strange from the outside when you have been

457
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Speaker 1: without the ark, and when you've tried to do it

458
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: without God, and when you've ended up on your own

459
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: bathroom floor. I remember when my dad came to me

460
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Speaker 1: when I was a teenager, and he gave his life

461
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Speaker 1: to Christ, and he said, you don't know how. I

462
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: was standing in the shower and cry every morning, wondering

463
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: how am I going to fake it another day because

464
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Speaker 1: I'm so low? But this poor man cry to the Lord.

465
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Speaker 1: Had he heard me from heaven, had he reached out,

466
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Speaker 1: had he saved me? You don't know. Stop trying to

467
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: make sense to people who don't even know your story.

468
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: Stop trying to conform Christians not supposed to make sense

469
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Speaker 1: to people who don't know God. We don't even worship God.

470
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Speaker 1: Most of us. We say Jesus is Lord, but we

471
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Speaker 1: live like logic is Lord. Because every time we get

472
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: in a situation, the first thing we consult is our circumstance.

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Speaker 1: The first thing we can soul is our energy. The

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Speaker 1: first thing we consul is our feelings. The first thing

475
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: we can soul is our mood. The first thing that

476
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Speaker 1: we that we consult is something somebody told us on

477
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: some god forsaken news channel. I rebuke the spirit of

478
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: fear that's running your life today. Does you keep running

479
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: to the wrong place? I rebuke it. I tell it

480
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: to dry up. But for that to happen, you gotta

481
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: do it. Like David said, y'all gotta praise God. So

482
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Speaker 1: when I would leave the choir back in college, I

483
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: used to get real. My hero at the time was

484
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: Kirk Franklin, and most of the people at the college

485
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: were white. That was interesting. And I have always believed

486
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Speaker 1: I don't mind telling you to praise God. You have

487
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Speaker 1: to tell me to praise God. Yes I do, Yes,

488
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Speaker 1: I do. I don't need you to scream at me.

489
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: Yes you do. Sometimes not all the time, but sometimes

490
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: this man came over to the praise service one night.

491
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Speaker 1: I used to get down off the stage. All I

492
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: was wild. While try to turn the Baptist school into

493
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Speaker 1: a Pentecostal worship service. I didn't know what to do,

494
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: so I had to make them. I'd get down off

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Speaker 1: the stage. I start walking over chairs and stuff. And

496
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Speaker 1: this one guy that was there, that was he had

497
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: been at the school forever. He was a ministrator, our student.

498
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Speaker 1: And I could tell he came one night. I could

499
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Speaker 1: tell he didn't like it. And I went to him

500
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Speaker 1: next day and I said, I don't think you liked it.

501
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: He sounded like it at all. I said, well, didn't

502
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: you like Did the speaker say something said I didn't

503
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: like you. I don't like you. I said, well, was

504
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: it something I said he said about everything you said

505
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: and what you did? Cause I don't need At the time,

506
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Speaker 1: I was nineteen with some old navy turtle. He said,

507
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: I don't need some nineteen year old with a turtleneck

508
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,479
Speaker 1: coming down. He was real country too. I don't need

509
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: some nineteen year old with a turtleneck coming down there

510
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Speaker 1: off the stage and telling me to praise the Lord,

511
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: telling me y'all don't want to praise him. I do

512
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: want to praise him. That's why I can't. I don't

513
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: need you to make me, no, but I think you

514
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Speaker 1: do sometimes. I think you do sometimes. In fact, I

515
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Speaker 1: think one better than that. You need to awaken your

516
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: inner David like he did in some one o three.

517
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Speaker 1: So when we're not here to do it, because we're

518
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: gonna lead you to worship God. I'm not gonna just

519
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: get up here and preach like this, Oh, turn in

520
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: your bible. I'm gonna take you, clap your hands. I'm

521
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: gonna write and remind you to do some stuff that

522
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: you know. I'm not one of these lifeguards that smokes

523
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: weed and lays there and doesn't watch. If I see

524
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: you drowning in doubt, I'm gonna pull you out. Does

525
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: that my job, dude? That is my job. And by

526
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: the way, I don't even break for everybody. Just a few. Hey,

527
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Speaker 1: if I can find five people in the room who

528
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: don't care and are not a shame and who know

529
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: it was the blood but the real secret news, can

530
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: you say bless the Lord, oh my soul? Because David

531
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Speaker 1: did that. He didn't just make them praise God, he

532
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: made him self praise God. Why are you so much

533
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: better telling everybody else what to do than you are

534
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: telling you what to do? I never saw a service

535
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: go from so high to so low in one sentence.

536
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: But look at it. Look at the scripture he said,

537
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: Glory to God, Praise God. He gets Shimamurathaiah and Jayahel

538
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: and Matitataya and the Lord and all these guys. Right,

539
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: but it's not so many. When he went to get

540
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: the ark, he took thirty thousand with him. David didn't

541
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Speaker 1: always have thirty thousand. David didn't always have thirty thousand.

542
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: At one point, after God had annointed him to be king,

543
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: he has six hundred. And the Bible describes him men

544
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: who were in crippling dead. Crippling dead, that's the only

545
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: reason they came to David. What they needed from him.

546
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Speaker 1: That's who he had. Ruffians, they were, Yeah, that's who

547
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,240
Speaker 1: he had. God has gathered to David all these armies,

548
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: and he takes them all down to get the ark

549
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: thirty thousand. And they can't do it because they don't

550
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: do it God's way. Because sometimes you start thinking that

551
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: you need more of something more, you get smarter than God,

552
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: don't you. Hagar. That was Abraham's wife. She thought if

553
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,439
Speaker 1: she helped God out having a baby, it would help,

554
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: because look, can we admit it was a strange way

555
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: for God to start a nation, to pick a woman

556
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: with a bear and wound. If you're going to need

557
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: a nation, you need a son, so you find somebody

558
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: with the sun and you start there. No, God's gonna

559
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: do it in a strange way, so it can be

560
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: his strength. God has a strange way. The next time

561
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: you seeing waymaker, make sure you understand that the way

562
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: that he makes will seem strange. As he's making it,

563
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: you'll look back and say, miracle worker, promise keeper, light

564
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: in the darkness. That's who you are. Only thing you'll

565
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: be thinking while you're going through it is this is weird.

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00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: This is weird. How many have been there the last

567
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks in your life, just going this is weird,

568
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Speaker 1: this is crazy. Yeah, this is crazy, this is heavy,

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00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: this is dark. Well, when David gets to the other

570
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:18,760
Speaker 1: side of this journey with the Arc, he does something

571
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: really fantastic, really beautiful. He said, God remembers his covenant

572
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:30,240
Speaker 1: and the promise he made. Now a lot of times

573
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: we are trying to hold God to our preferences, not

574
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 1: his promises. So that's where the disappointment is. A lot

575
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: of times, what we are trying to get God to

576
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: do in our life, he never said he would do it.

577
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: GI you an example of that take your stress away.

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00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: He didn't say I'll take your stress. He said I'll

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Speaker 1: give you strength. In order for God to take your

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00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: stress away, he's got to take your breath away. Nice

581
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: way of saying he's got to kill you. How many

582
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: y'all want God to take their stress away? Don't raise it.

583
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: I don't want you to die like USA right here

584
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: in front of me. God is good. God is good,

585
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: But the ways that he shows his goodness seems strange.

586
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: It seems strange what you're going through right now, doesn't

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00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: That certainly seems strange to me. The Lord told me

588
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: ready for this. The Lord told me in twenty thirteen.

589
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: Was that when I did surround twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,

590
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: run about there, he said, you're going to reach one

591
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people every week when you preach. That didn't

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00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: happen until COVID hit and the buildings closed. I am

593
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: not saying God sent COVID so I could hit a

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Speaker 1: number that I made up in my mind. Don't hear

595
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: it like that. Don't hear it like that. But the

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Speaker 1: first day we ever reached that number of people live

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Speaker 1: in service, not through podcasts and later stuff. The first

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00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: day we reached that number of people in service, there

599
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: were five people in the room, and I thought, this

600
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: is strange. This is strange because when you're standing there

601
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: in it, it just looked like we went backwards. And

602
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: to your senses is strange, and to your feelings is strange,

603
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: and to your rational mind is strange. And to those

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00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: watching you carry the arc is strange. Why don't you

605
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: put it on a cart? Why don't you do it

606
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: the easy way? Why don't you just sell out to this?

607
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: Why don't you just give up on that. Some people

608
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: in your life think you're strange for coming to this church.

609
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: I know you don't want to hurt my feelings, so

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00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 1: you just kind of what we're talking about clearly normal.

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Speaker 1: Holly says something funny the other day. I'm planned to

612
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: share this, so we'll take it out later if it

613
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: doesn't come out right. One time they did a parody

614
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,959
Speaker 1: article of us. They said we put a water slide

615
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: on our stage for baptisms. Why I didn't see it.

616
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: I just had people texting me, what's up with the

617
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: water slide? Now, that's a weird text to get if

618
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Speaker 1: you don't know the contact Some good the water slider

619
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Speaker 1: you in my backyard. What's going on? I don't have

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Speaker 1: a slide. You mean in the church. You think I

621
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Speaker 1: have a water slide in the church. And people were

622
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: saying that she said something the other day because we

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Speaker 1: were reflecting on God's faithfulness to our ministry. She said,

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Speaker 1: now that I look back on it, I kind of

625
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: like that this church is crazy enough that when they

626
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Speaker 1: said we would put a water slide in the church

627
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Speaker 1: for people to get baptized, it was believable. Don't y'all

628
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Speaker 1: love Holly Fernick. Because I'm sitting there one to sue somebody,

629
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Speaker 1: you can't say that about me. She took the insult

630
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Speaker 1: as a compliment that they thought we were just that

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Speaker 1: crazy that if God said put a water slide, or

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Speaker 1: if God said feet a crowd with five loaves and

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Speaker 1: two fish. No, I'm not announcing the water slide. Don't

634
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Speaker 1: get the illustration twisted. It's just an illustration. I'm just

635
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: saying that it's a weird way to make an to

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Speaker 1: pick a barren womb. It's a weird way to deliver

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00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: a nation with a staff over a sea. It's a

638
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Speaker 1: weird way to feed a crowd with a little boy's lunch.

639
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: It's a weird way to attend a funeral four days

640
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Speaker 1: late and then tell the man to get up. It's

641
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: a weird way to stop a storm, to sleep through

642
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: it and wait till the last watch of the night.

643
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: But sometimes weird works. Sometimes when I start praising God

644
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Speaker 1: for the few I have, he hadsn to me. I

645
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Speaker 1: love it. I love him, I love him, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I was so weird when I was in college. I

647
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: was so weird. I was so weird. I used to

648
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Speaker 1: go to the bathroom between classes sometimes so I could

649
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: get my Bible reading in because I wasn't disciplined enough

650
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Speaker 1: to wake up early. I'll say, if I get five

651
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Speaker 1: minutes in the bathroom, nobody will bother me in this bathroom.

652
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: Nobody will bother me in this bathroom. And if I'd

653
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Speaker 1: had a phone, I would have probably wouldn't have done it.

654
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 1: I would have scrolled something, but I would take just

655
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Speaker 1: a few. I think the enemy wants you to think

656
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Speaker 1: that you don't have enough of stuff. David not only

657
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Speaker 1: said that it was God who gave you Canaan. That's

658
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Speaker 1: the promised land. We're not talking about land, We're talking

659
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Speaker 1: about the lives God has given us the lives. You

660
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Speaker 1: are living in what God has given you. That's the

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Speaker 1: difference between me and the person who says I'm a

662
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Speaker 1: self made man. I don't claim that everything I have

663
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Speaker 1: got is the result of something. God gave me everything everything,

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Speaker 1: So I don't want to apologize for it, but I

665
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Speaker 1: don't want to be proud about it because God gave

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00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: it to me. You are living in something that was

667
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: given And if you don't believe that, you will be prideful.

668
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: And if you believe that, if you don't believe that

669
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Speaker 1: long enough, you'll be powerless because you'll lean on your

670
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: own understanding, because you will say Jesus is Lord, but

671
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: you will live like logic is Lord, and you'll always

672
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Speaker 1: be counting. We only have five, we only have two.

673
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Speaker 1: This won't go so far. It's too few. It's too few.

674
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Speaker 1: I've been studying the Bible for over half my life

675
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: seriously to teach it, not just to learn it. And

676
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: I've been studying the Bible over half my life not

677
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: just to preach it, but to live it. One thing

678
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Speaker 1: I found out in the Bible is that generally speaking,

679
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 1: you can find some exceptions, but as a general principle,

680
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: listen to this. God never looks at your life and

681
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,959
Speaker 1: says I can't do it because you have too few

682
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: of anything. God never looks at people. He never I

683
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: can't find in the Bible very many times. There are

684
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Speaker 1: a few a few, But this is one of those

685
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 1: cases where the exception proofs the rule that mostly the

686
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Speaker 1: Bible is about a seventy five year old man named

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Speaker 1: Abraham who became a great nation. When you're seventy five,

688
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Speaker 1: you only have a few years left when you're I

689
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: could go on and on with this, y'all. When you're

690
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Speaker 1: making a plan to save the world and you start

691
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Speaker 1: at thirty and you're going to the cross. Why didn't

692
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Speaker 1: Jesus die at age seventy five? Why did he do

693
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Speaker 1: everything that he was sent to do in three years?

694
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Speaker 1: Even better? Why didn't he run a big campaign so

695
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: he could get a big number of disciples so he

696
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: could have a lot of followers if he's leaving. Why

697
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: did he spend so much time with twelve men and

698
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: one of them was Judas? Why did he do it

699
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: in three years with twelve men and change the world.

700
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: Maybe he wanted to set the model so you could

701
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: see what he can do through a few because he knew. Listen, listen,

702
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: he knew that you would be in this situation in life,

703
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: and you'd be saying, I don't have enough. I don't

704
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: know enough, I don't have enough, I don't have enough time,

705
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: I don't have enough talent. I don't have a big

706
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: enough team. I'm not I don't that song. I got

707
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: a really big team. I didn't make that song. I

708
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: have a really small team. In fact, some of you

709
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,919
Speaker 1: are here today being like I have nobody, and that's

710
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: not true. But the enemy always seeks to diminish what

711
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: you've been given. That's his strategy, over and over, and

712
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: how many times will he do it? As many times

713
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: as you'll believe it. He'll take what you have given

714
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: and diminish it and shrink it, and diminish it and

715
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: shrink it until you can't focus on it, until all

716
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: you see in your life is what others carry, until

717
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: all you see in your life is the things you

718
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: don't have, until you forget the few that you do.

719
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 1: I want to preach to you today about the few

720
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Speaker 1: that you do have. If that's finances, I'm talking about

721
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: the few dollars you have, If that's years that you

722
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Speaker 1: have with your kids left in the house. I want

723
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: to speak about the few that you do have. If

724
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 1: that's friends that you have who really love you, really

725
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: believe in you. I want to talk about the few

726
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: that you do have. If that's the things that you're

727
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: good at versus the things that you're not. I want

728
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: to talk about the few that you do have. That's

729
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: why God used David. He knew what to do with

730
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: the few. Do you are you always waiting for something else,

731
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: more and more and more, God give me more wisdom.

732
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: And sometimes, God says, the problem is not that you

733
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: have have too few, You got too much. You got

734
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 1: too much. God give me more wisdom, more wisdom, more wisdom.

735
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: God said. The problem isn't the absence of wisdom. The

736
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: problem is that you have too many opinions. Sometimes you

737
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: have too much information. God just need to know more

738
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: than I can do it now, you don't need to

739
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,919
Speaker 1: know more some way, leave at church on time, says

740
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: I knew. I knew all that today before I came

741
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: some of y'all here, like I knew all about the

742
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: Ark of the Covenant. You didn't even get to the

743
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: good part about tabernacle looking made for it that was awesome.

744
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Speaker 1: Youn't talk about obid eedom we go obed, seem blessed

745
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Speaker 1: me brought back down. You talk about that I was good.

746
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: I knew all that. You knew it already. But do

747
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: you do it already? It's what you do with the few.

748
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: I learned this over and over and over and over again,

749
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: that sometimes I had more faith with a few than

750
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: I have with more. What's that about? As few went

751
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: too many, eighth went from big to little? What's that about?

752
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: Because I start depending on the cart I think I

753
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: need more. So I'm just challenging you this week to

754
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: take what David said to your own heart when he

755
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: said that God gave it to them. Look at verse

756
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: nineteen again, I gave them so many scriptures today. Yo,

757
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: my fear in preaching is running out of stuff. So

758
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: you should see all the scriptures we don't get to.

759
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: It would give you heart palpitations to know what all

760
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 1: they're looking through back there, because the last thing I

761
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 1: want to get up here is fifteen minutes in and

762
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: go and uh, well, I guess sir. So I'm always

763
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: thinking that I don't have enough to say. Sometimes my

764
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: biggest mistake in preaching is I try to say too much.

765
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: I do too much? Is the ark of covenant is

766
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: to book a revelation in this temple of Daggon. And

767
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,919
Speaker 1: you're like, well, I just had my first cup of coffee. See,

768
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: it could be just as bad to do too much.

769
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: Here's David, from a shepherd to a king. And what

770
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Speaker 1: does he go? Back to verse nineteen? He said, God

771
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: spoke it when they were but what's the word few?

772
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: But few? And then he emphasizes it, watch this few. Indeed,

773
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: just in case you think he's overstating it, He's like, nah,

774
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 1: it was nothing but Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and

775
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 1: the patriarchs, and God did all this out of that.

776
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: Don't get it twisted to think that I'm so great

777
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,879
Speaker 1: as a king. David said, no, no no, no, He did

778
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: it when they were but few, so he could prove

779
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: that he was faithful. And he couldn't prove that he

780
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: was faithful if he didn't do it through. If he

781
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,760
Speaker 1: did it through a lot, you would consult a lot

782
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: of your logic and the lot of your resources. So

783
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: God has you in a season right now where he

784
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: is striping away some things and subtracting some things, and

785
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: some people are leaving, and some things are disappearing, and

786
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: some certainties are evaporating, and some things you depended on

787
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: all your life are no longer able to hold you up.

788
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 1: So God can show you what he can do a few.

789
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: It is almost like Gideon in the Old Testament, where

790
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: he had thirty two thousand warriors, and the Lord said,

791
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: I can't use you yet to deliver my people. Look

792
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 1: at Judge seventy two. Why because you're not strong enough,

793
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 1: Why because you're not smart enough. Why because you're not

794
00:50:54,320 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: experienced enough? No, no no, no, He said, you have too many.

795
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,879
Speaker 1: So why are you praying about too few when God

796
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: is talking about too many? God said, take them down

797
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: to the water. I'll find them out. I'll send home

798
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 1: who needs to be sent home, and you'll deliver the

799
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: people with three hundred men. I'm not good at math,

800
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: but that's backwards. I went from thirty two thousand to

801
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: three hundred. And it feels bad to go backwards. And

802
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: you've been going backwards, and you've been feeling bad about it.

803
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 1: But praise the Lord, because praise paves a way for

804
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 1: the provision of God to be revealed in your life

805
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: through the few, through the few, say it through the few,

806
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: through the few. I don't have that much. You don't

807
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 1: need that much. You don't need what you think you need.

808
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: I promise you, I promise you. You don't need what

809
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: you think you need to do what God has called

810
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: you to do. Because if you needed what you think

811
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: you need to do what God had called you to do,

812
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: and he's the one who called you to do it,

813
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: he would have given you what you think you need

814
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: to do what He's called you to do, because he's

815
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: the one who called you to do it. He doesn't

816
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: promise stuff that he doesn't provide for. Oh, if I

817
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: was more even tempered, No, no, no, you need a

818
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Speaker 1: little bit of that oom. All right, we're gonna subdue

819
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: it and submit it and we're going to train it

820
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: to the Holy Spirit. But you need some of that.

821
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: You're gonna get some self control, but you need some

822
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: of that. Oh, if I could do this, if I

823
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 1: could do that, if I could be more like this.

824
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: I went to when I first went to Shelby, I

825
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: went to a music director. This guy was a legend.

826
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: He was the best musician that at that point in

827
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: my life I had ever met. He played in studios,

828
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,720
Speaker 1: he played on people's albums. And here I was asking

829
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: him to come be my keyboard player at a church

830
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: of just a few hundred people, just a few hundred.

831
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: Everybody around me told him he won't do it. He

832
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,439
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be on some church band. He won't

833
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: play on a church stage. I said, well, let me

834
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: just go talk to him, and I said, I know

835
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: that you probably won't do it. You know, by the way,

836
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 1: you'll never get a date if you come up with

837
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: this kind of confidence. I was like, I know you

838
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 1: probably don't want to do it. But before I finished,

839
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: she said, yeah, I'll do it. I said, I can

840
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Speaker 1: only pay you this much, and it was just a

841
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: few I was gonna pay him for a week what

842
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: he could get in an hour. He saw, I do it.

843
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: I've been praying about that. Okay, just start doing Every week.

844
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: I go over to his house. And it was such

845
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: a trip, y'all because I would teach him the songs. Now,

846
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: let me explain to you, I don't have much musical training.

847
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: Just the chords I learned on my guitar when I

848
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: was a boy, and that's it. Now. I know those

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Speaker 1: four chords really well. But I learned to play guitar

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Speaker 1: off Green Day, Huh not Boch Hootie and the Blowfish.

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Speaker 1: That's how I learned to play guitar. But I know

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Speaker 1: what I know. So I'd go over to his house.

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Speaker 1: He had a little studio in his house, and I

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Speaker 1: would sit down with him. His name was Richard, still

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Speaker 1: is Richard. But I sit down with Richard and I

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Speaker 1: take the little chord charts over. I say, let's go

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Speaker 1: over these songs for the week. Not because he needed

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Speaker 1: to learn him just we were getting it all charted

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Speaker 1: out and he would chart it for me and everything.

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Speaker 1: I would always apologize to him. I always felt bad

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Speaker 1: because he's such a great musician. I mean, he knows jazz,

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Speaker 1: he knows rock, he knows country. He can play anything

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Speaker 1: by ear or by sight. And here I am with

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Speaker 1: a G and a C and D and A and

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Speaker 1: that's the whole song. And I say, I'm so sorry, Richard.

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Speaker 1: I know this is so simple, this is so stupid

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Speaker 1: me sitting here a great musician like you. I don't

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Speaker 1: even know all the chords that you know. And one

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Speaker 1: day he stopped me. He says, Stephen, stop thinking. Everybody

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Speaker 1: I am personate has a country accent, right, Stephen. He said,

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Speaker 1: you don't need to know more chords, the right four.

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Speaker 1: And then he started. He gave me a tutorial. He

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Speaker 1: started playing songs with the four chords that I used

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Speaker 1: over and over again. And he showed me at least

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Speaker 1: twenty songs that use those four chords only, and every

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Speaker 1: time he would do it would drive the message home

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. You only need four, You only

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Speaker 1: need four. Then he played again. It was just a one, five, six, four.

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Speaker 1: That's the notation the Nashville number system, right, It's the one,

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Speaker 1: the five, the six, and the four. And he showed

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Speaker 1: me with those four chords, you can write a number

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Speaker 1: one hit. It's not how many chords you know, it's

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Speaker 1: how you use the ones you know. Hey, hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: not preaching to everybody today. Few, just a few that

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Speaker 1: had been going around saying, God, I don't know enough,

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Speaker 1: i don't have enough. I have been trained enough. I'm

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Speaker 1: not good enough. I'm not sleeping enough. That must be

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Speaker 1: a parent of a newborn or a dog. God, I'll

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Speaker 1: have enough. And Richards showed me you only need four chords.

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Speaker 1: You only need four. I'll prove it. When God got

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Speaker 1: ready to turn on the lights of the solar system.

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Speaker 1: He said, four words, let there be light. Four words,

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Speaker 1: and the lights came on. Four words, and the world

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Speaker 1: was illuminated four words, and the darkness had to back up.

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Speaker 1: You only need four. You only need four. You only

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Speaker 1: need for play a DLJ. You only need four. You

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Speaker 1: could do more with four. You could be faithful with you,

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Speaker 1: He taught me. Four chords can do so much. So

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Speaker 1: follow me. I'm gonna do it on the spot, and

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Speaker 1: then I'm gonna close. But I'm gonna show you before

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Speaker 1: I close, what you can do with four. If everybody

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Speaker 1: on the worship team went out and got Salmonila, just

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Speaker 1: keep making up horrible stuff to happen to the worship team,

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Speaker 1: all right, And I knew four chords, What could I do?

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Speaker 1: I could say, tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,

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Speaker 1: just to take him at his word, four course, just

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Speaker 1: to rest upon his promise, Just to know th saith

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Speaker 1: the Lord. Four course Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him,

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Speaker 1: how I've proved him? Or and or Jesus, Jesus prayscious Jesus,

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Speaker 1: this is what we need more of, Oh for grace,

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Speaker 1: to trust him more. You don't need more stuff. You

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Speaker 1: need more faith, h fourpos purpose, one name, my Jesus.

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Speaker 1: I love THEE. I know Thou art mine for THEE

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Speaker 1: all the fires of sin. I resign my gray suss redeemer,

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Speaker 1: my Savior are if I love my Gesus? Just now

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Speaker 1: see four course and we could go. What a friend

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Speaker 1: we haven't changed keys four courts. You don't need more courts.

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Speaker 1: You need more faith, you'll need more time, you need

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Speaker 1: more focus. You might not even need more money. You

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Speaker 1: might just even need better priorities. What a friend we

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Speaker 1: have in Geesus, all our sense and griefs to bear.

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Speaker 1: What a privilege to carry h e fathing to God

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Speaker 1: in prayer. Here's the problem listen. Oh, oh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know where the courts go. Oh what peace we often

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Speaker 1: for fit? And oh what needless pain? Me ben, And

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Speaker 1: here's why we've been stressed out, Oh, because we do

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Speaker 1: not give everything to God in prayer. I know a few.

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Speaker 1: I know a few courts, I know a few truths.

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Speaker 1: I know a few things. I know what to do

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Speaker 1: with a few. I know what to do with the few.

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Speaker 1: He was faithful with the few. God will give you

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Speaker 1: what you need. Here. I am to worship here, I

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Speaker 1: am too bout here I am to say that you're myga.

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Speaker 1: You're all together, loving, all together, worthy, all together wonderful

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Speaker 1: to me. I need a few of you to stand

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Speaker 1: and see it. Here. I am to worship here, I

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Speaker 1: am here. You say you're host ah, A few of

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Speaker 1: you really been carrying a lot. Lift your hands up

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Speaker 1: and give it to God. Here rides here. Here say

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Speaker 1: your send chords new songs, say and exhaustthy ah. Come on,

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Speaker 1: let's livet Jesus high in this place today. Come on,

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Speaker 1: He's worthy of praise. Well. If you enjoyed today's podcast,

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Speaker 1: there are a couple of things I'd love for you

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Speaker 1: to do. Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast.

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Speaker 1: for joining us on the Elevation Podcast